Check out this informative video by the Dead Worker's Party, which shows off the awesome shaders currently in testing!
UPDATE Sept. 20: Snapshot 13w38c has been released to fix numerous graphical issues, crashes and item frame issues. The client is available in your launcher, and the server links are at the bottom of the page!
It's time for another weekly Snapshot! This batch of preview goodies is brought to you by...well, Mojang. There really wasn't anything witty to say there. Still need something witty before the patch notes? Alright, fine: elephants can't jump.
Right, let's see some patch notes!
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Pretty exciting changes! What, you don't see them? That's because they're secret! See if you can find them all before tomorrow...
SERVER FILES:
Cross-platform jar: Click here
Windows EXE: Click here
Report bugs here: Minecraft issue tracker
Or they are saying some things just can't be done.
shout out to windows xp and microsoft paint
Also, I would consider this a bug or side-effect of the rendering changes, but when you step under a tree (or anything) into shade, the sky darkens and looks like it is going to rain.
As for whining/ranting about the addition of the "Super Secret Settings"... get over it. I won't ever use it, and could care less that it is there, but it may end up being one less mod that we have to add to Minecraft in the future... one less that has a history of not playing well with others, 2 if they can fix up the Optifine inspired bits.
As for saying they "stole" options from Optifine... um, no... A lot of these options are in pretty much every modern game you can play.
Gonna love these features, improvement achievements, super secret with shader (but it doesn't) and frame rate becomes lag-free (maybe?) in this snapshot.
And I still hate poppies.
First silverfish now bats. I'm guessing it's a glitch, but it does look pretty cool on the frame
Appears to be infinite, just change it in config.txt, it is on the 6th line. I would recommend pressing ESC to load up the world faster if you are on singleplayer.
Well, maybe...maybe not. Mojang will tell us eventually.